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The Plight of Kogi State Workers and the Urgent Need for Intervention
A.S.M Jimoh The level of dehumanization and oppression of workers in Kogi state by the state government with regards to the payment of salary has reached an alarming level. For a situation that has gone beyond repair, it is usually said, “it can’t be worse than this.” The situation of Kogi state workers, especially those…
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Just Before Kidnapping at Schools is Normalized in the North.
The danger this spate of school children abduction portends for the North in particular, and Nigeria in general, is that it is going to discourage parents from allowing their wards to attend schools, further increasing the numbers of out-of-school children. For a region needing incentives to increase school enrollment, especially for the girl child, this…
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The Nigeria Consulate, Saudi Arabia: A Centre Of Ridiculousness
By A.S.M. Jimoh First published in 2016. However, while it may be acknowledged that some of the things have changed, many others have remained the same. If anything, they have mastered the art of corruption by going into private homes to do passport for citizens at exorbitant illegal fees. The Nigeria consulate located in Jeddah,…
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It is Time for the Service Chiefs to Go
With clear signs that the Nigeria state is losing the battle again against the Boko haram murderous group and all other forms of terrorism, obviously from the exhaustion of strategy, what is expected of President Muhammed Buhari to do is to bring in new hands who will inject fresh ideas in the fight against any…
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When I Foolishly Thought Yahaya Bello Would Make A Governor
Before his inauguration in 2016 as the Governor of Kogi state, I had written the piece below with the title “Challenges Awaiting Kogi Governor-Elect, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello“ thinking that he would make a good governor of the state. Alas, I was daydreaming if notlooking for a needle in a haystack in the dark. Four…
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#FromtheArchives: Like Wole Soyinka, Like Naiwu Osahon.
First published in Feb. 2012 after Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka exposes his ignorance of National issues. As an individual who always want his grammar to be heard, he went to the podium again last week after the president Buhari’s address on COVID19, demonstrating once again grammar, but lacking in substance. This made me republish this…
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The Worthless Life of the People of Zamfara
The question is what crime the Zamfara people committed this time around that has made their blood so cheap and their lives so worthless. For at least the other time they were ravaged by meningitis, the Governor, Chief Priest AbdulAziz Yari, who should be in an emergency mode to curtail the scourge, told us it…
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